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What Hope Requires of Us

An Address by Steven C. Rockefeller

“Prosperous Lowcountry, Flourishing Planet”

South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Conference

May 8-9, 2013

To read the PDF, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/Rockefeller_CCL_5-14-2013.pdf

Faith-based groups play key role in advancing development goals, UNDP chief says

May 3, 2013
United Nations Development Programme

Dharma and Ecology Interview with Pankaj Jain

May 2, 2013
DesiplazaTV

DesiplazaTV is an Indian American TV Company in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, TX, USA

Episcopal Church, Church of Sweden, ELCA commitment: "Sustaining hope in the face of climate change"

May 2, 2013
The Episcopal Church
Office of Public Affairs

The heads of three religious denominations - The Episcopal Church, the Church of Sweden, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) – signed a joint statement “to celebrate our commitment to hope in the face of climate change.”

The Gathering Storm

May 2013
By Janelle Tupper  
Sojourners Magazine

Climate change leads to far more consequences than just destructive weather patterns.

 

Climate scientists have warned that climate change will bring about—and already is bringing about—more frequent and fiercer storms. But climate change leads to far more than just destructive weather patterns, with consequences...

Feeding our Imagination

May 2013
By Mallory McDuff
Sojourners Magazine

Fiction with a climate change theme.

No Time for Arm-Chair Activists

May 2013
By Julie Polter
Sojourners Magazine

Those who study together can also change together. Here are our recommendations for good books, videos, and online resources for stepping forward to reverse climate change.

 

BOOKS

Faith meets science

The Battle is Joined

May 2013
By Bill McKibben
Sojourners Magazine

We can see in our mind’s eye all the generations to come, and so we know why we fight.

For God So Loved the World

May 2013
By Rose Marie Berger
Sojourners Magazine

What will it take to push back climate change? A Spirit-driven ‘power shift’ might be a key.

 

NEW YORK CITY has been bombed at least twice in the past decade. First by al Qaeda and second by Hurricane Sandy.

Water Ethics Newsletter

April 2013

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=31982f6e4937945bfaddf6712&id=c797e2090b&e=495d1f20da

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